When you piss on the legacies of drive-in flicks like Prom Night and April Fool’s Day and Black Christmas, it gets our panties in a collective wad because those are OUR movies. They’re misunderstood, largely ignored, and badly treated “special” children who need horror nuts like us to nurture and defend them to the mainstream – not cheap, lousy remakes to convince the masses that the originals were never any good to begin with.

But Carrie? Carrie‘s a fucking masterpiece. Do your worst, Hollywood – because the bitch in the homemade prom dress is UNTOUCHABLE.

No matter how bad the planned “truer-to-the-book” version of Carrie winds up being (or even if it’s brilliant), it will do nothing to sully the power of the original, which has been cemented in film history as one of the greatest horror movies ever made. It’s canon. And no matter what you do, you can’t dislodge canon. Hell, even The Rage: Carrie 2 and that low-rent Carrie miniseries that ran about 10 years ago – which wasn’t half-bad, all told – did nothing to besmirch the pale, luminous glory of everyone’s favorite pair of dirty pillows.

So you know what, Hollywood? Have at it. I’ll see you by the punch bowl at Springtime in Venice.

About Buzz

Buzz created CampBlood.org in 2003 to meet a need for a safe place for weirdos of all stripes to discuss horror movies from a queer perspective. Now that the campers have overtaken the Camp staff and locked them in the Arts & Crafts cabin he is questioning that decision.

Ahhh, Carrie. I remember my Year 10 English assignment in 1994, comparing book-to-movie conversions. I showed big snippets from the movie to the class. Including the shower scene. Teacher was not impressed.

It’s hard to get worked up about the latest remake news these days. I even suspect the possible Scream 5 will end up being a remake of the first Scream.

Read an interview with Stephen King where he said he has no control over a remake but that even he preferred the way it was portrayed by DePalma and the cast in the original, especially Piper Laurie. He just didn’t see the point in remaking something that was that good, but then again he is the one who decided to remake The Shining and we know how that turned out.

Carrie is the new Frankenstein, to be resurrected for each generation. It’s a testament to the strength of its source novel, which is also like Frankenstein, immortal. They should get more creative and give us Groom of Carrie, or Curse of Carrie. Oh, wait…